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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -Robert Benchley
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My Work

Forum Postings

Jacob's Room

I have never read virginia woolf - this is my first post
Virginia's Drawing Room - picture of V. W.

The Making of A Poem

The Ballad with music- I like the ballad!
Closest to Human Speech? - we WISH we could speak in blank verse
Why So Eager to Deal Out Judgemeant? - we are stuck in our ways
Better Without Rhyme? - it's all subjective
Why So Eager to Deal Out Judgemeant? - poetry is like music... there isn't just one form
Random Question - it is really really late at night... or early early morning, whichever you prefer
Julius Caesar - Marc Anthony is so sarcastic
Lost in Paradise Lost - It's all Greek to me

Essays

He Does Make a Good Point - It's ok if a work isn't perfect.
Reading versus Hearing - using both increases comprehension
What is Nature!? - the most basic aspects of life
Would He Have a Stroke? - most definitely. he would be appalled.
Really An Essay? - it's whatever the author says it is
Wit - it's subjective
Impossible - a return to Homer
Allusions - did anybody know what he was talking about?
How exactly would you conquer nature? - what in the world is Pope talking about?

She Stoops to Conquer

Similarity to Midsummer Night's Dream - definitely similar
How Everything Went Wrong Made Everything Go Right? - don't take authors too seriously!
Tony = Misunderstood - Poor Tony.
Miss Hardcastle and Marlow - she wants to fix him
Significance of title - She "stoops"...?

As I Lay Dying

Universal Truths - I completely believe in Universal Truths
When will I be blown up? - hmm... when WILL I be blown up?...
The Reason the Lord Created Women - stubborn people are so annoying
As I lay rotting - it's Addie, not her family
Eyes - no physical descriptions?
Shouldn't Jewel Have a Say? - Addie loved him
Addie's Revenge - I don't know what to say in my annotation
Was Addie a Good Mother? - NO!
Scarlett Letter - Not necessarily an allusion
Filling the Gaps - we can infer some things, but not everything
Perception - Faulkner benefits from 1st person perspective
A Symptom of the Family's Problem - Poor Darl
Failed Heroism - they try...and fail
The Wedding Dress - the dress was more important than her head
He Kilt Her - logical, for a child
Faulkner's Acceptance Speech - the novel lacks uplifting elements
Darl in WWI - why only Darl?
Anse's Burden - we know people like him

The Cherry Orchard

firs - furthers the satire of the play
Twice - the characters are so arrogant
A String Breaking? - what exactly does this mean? and what does it sound like?
Madame Renevsky - not smart enough to run an estate.
They're Gone... - a very annoying sigh of relief

Collaborations

(non-post pages made with others)
link to your collab - annotate here
another link to another collab -

Discussions

The Crying of Lot 49

what did you think? -too confusing
Oedipa Oedipus - it's all about the journey
Alice in Wonderland - it's very "curious" how they relate
Oedipa's Attractiveness - she's mysterious
humor - it made the book bearable!

The Things They Carried

O'Brien v. O'Brien - it emphasizes his point
Ending with Linda - war stories are actually love stories
He makes us believe it's real - he's a genius
Change - the soldiers feel out of place
Relation to the man he killed - he knows he could be next

Long Day's Journey into Night

Sigmund Freud - In Vino Veritas

Walking on egg shells - they are caught between truth and propriety
Parallels - No similarities with Addie Bundren
Living in the Past - it's the reason they can't move forward
The Replacement Child - *annotation*

The Elegy and Pastoral

The Tornado - relates nature to life
The Ode - it could be about anything
Child Burial - not selfish at all
gender specified vehicles? - it's not anti-women
Poetry in General - free verse and villanelle
The Bear - the experience was poetic
move - a desperate plea
Ave Maria - what is he trying to say?
Media Coverage - it's actually pretty funny
Mock Orange - she hates sex?

Invisible Cities

dialogue - they understand each other better
Philosophy - the question is more important than the answer
the cities' affect on the visitor - so cool!
Communication - why do we communicate?
I know there's a deeper meaning... - life and death is the deeper meaning
Zirma? - I'm confused.
Thekla - I miss Mayberry
Happy Ending for Dark City? - I'm a hopeless romantic
Creator of the world - spiritual and moral links
The Virtue of Trash - the grass is not always greener
Blindness - you wouldn't do anything about it, either
spirals? - I don't understand!
MY LAST POST!!! - how sad! :-(

External Links

Carmel Catholic
brtom.org

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This page was last revised by mmi-c on May 23, 2008 8:41 pm.